Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
by wkat4242 on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:57PM
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The arguments in that discussion don't really make sense either. Such lanes exist outside Latin America too. Like the "busbaan" in Almere, Netherlands. Edit: And in Diemen, as pointed out above.
But generally this "process-first" attitude makes me step back as a contributor immediately. I prefer doing something the wrong way and fixing it later instead of not doing it at all.
The same thing totally antagonizes me against Wikipedia editors so I never participate there either.
I mean, sure, there is some ambiguity around the exact limit of this tag, i.e., is it only meant for ways dedicated to rapid transit bus routes, or is it for ways dedicated to any bus performing a public transport role? That is a valid question (of the kind which tends to get answered in the OSM project with the passage of time and observing the actual usage of the tag), but, and at the end of the day, ways tagged with highway=busway are undeniably:
a) roads;
b) used by buses;
c) unless otherwise indicated, not accessible to general traffic.
Absolutely refusing to render even a simple line after three and a half years (despite two PRs provided) is hard to explain as anything but antagonistic gatekeeping behaviour.